Solar lamp for burning lard or oil



J. G. WEBB.

Lamp.

Patented Oct. 14, 1851.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN G. WEBB, OF VVILLIAMSBURG, NEW YORK,

SOLAR LAMP FOR BURNING LARI) 0R OIL.

Specicaton of Letters Patent No. 8,436, dated October 14, 1851.

To all lwhom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN Gr. WEBB, of Williamsburg, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Construction of Lamps for Burning Lard or Gil; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of the lamp through the center of the same. Fig. 2 is a plan of the circular deflector and button.

A Fig. 1 is the body or bowl of the lamp for holding the material to be burned, B, the deflector, placed above the level of the wick or base of the flame, C the wick, raised or lowered in any of the usual modes. E is the button placed above the deiector, and may be stationary or adjustable, and yit is best that the size should correspond with the opening of the deiector.

The material to be burned, may be either lard, impure oil or sperm oil, as by the peculiar manner of combining the deiector B, placed above the base of the flame or top of the wick C, with the button used for spreading the iame into a circular sheet,

and introduction of air into the inside of this circle of ame by the button and tube, as is the case with the Argand burner, the burning of the more impure oils or lard is effected, and a more brilliant light produced by the heat conveyed by the deflector, as well as by a portion transmitted through the button and stem, to the lamp body A, thus acting on the crude materials, and partially rendering them gaseous, and more susceptible of rising capillarly in the wick.

Having thus described my invention, I do not claim either the use or construction of the deflector, button, or any part of the nesses.

JOI-IN G. WEBB. Nitnessesz JOHN F. CLARK, A. E. FH. JoHNsoN, 

